Did 69% of Dogecoin Nodes Truly Crash? What We Know About the ‘DogeReaper’ Hack

Over the past 24 hours, a veil of confusion has surrounded the Dogecoin (DOGE) community amid claims of a critical attack on the network.

Sequentia Network co-founder Andreas Kohl recently claimed to have taken down the bulk of the Dogecoin network. In an X post on Thursday, the Bitcoin sidechain developer took credit for a hack that supposedly took down 69% of Dogecoin nodes, leveraging a vulnerability known as “DogeReaper” that allowed anyone to crash network nodes remotely. 

The vulnerability relies on a segmentation fault in the network’s code. A segmentation fault occurs when a program attempts to access an unauthorized memory location, leading to its abrupt termination by the operating system.